Joe, Becky, and Andrew squawk their Top 10 bands

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The Eagles, circa 1970

Top 10 bands and artists of all time

Tom Lee of JPMorgan guest-hosted Tuesday after being out all night after an Eagles concert. This led to an all-show conversation about which bands are the best of all time. (Keep reading, if you want his take on stocks.)

This sparked a lively debate among the anchors and the viewers on Twitter with only one concrete conclusion emerging: The only right answer is your own!

(My No. 1, of course, is Kansas! @kansasband on Twitter. Have I mentioned that Kansas drummer Phil Ehart is the official percussionist of Squawk Box? I have? OK, fine but I'll mention it again anyway!)

So we asked co-hosts Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin to forget history, forget geography and give us their list of 10 favorite bands/artists of all time! Don't number them. Just give us the ones you couldn't live without if you were being sent to a desert island forever.

The only unanimous choice from all three was "Steve Liesman & the Mooncussers" (we just said that to make @SteveLiesman feel good). So we'll take that as a given, and now give you everybody's list No 2. through 11 (in no particular order).

Barry Diller is the definition of a media mogul. He was CEO of Paramount Pictures when that studio made classics like the "Indiana Jones" series, "Saturday Night Fever," and "Beverly Hills Cop," along with TV shows such as "Taxi," "Laverne & Shirley" and "Cheers."

Then he went to Fox and green-lit "The Simpsons," among other things. Then it was on to Silver King Broadcasting (which got him involved with the Home Shopping Network). He purchased USA Network from the Bronfman family. He became chairman of Expedia and the chairman of IAC Interactive, which owns companies like Service-Magic, match.com, CitySearch, Connected Ventures and Vimeo.

He's certainly seen and done it all now that he mixed it up on the dais with Andrew at The New York Times DealBook Conference at the media powerhouse's Midtown Manhattan headquarters.

We had former New York Giants Super Bowl-winning wide receiver Phil McConkey on the show this week for Veteran's Day (Phil runs an investment firm that hires vets).

While we had him, we also asked McConkey about his experiences in an NFL locker room and his observations about the Richie Incognito bullying scandal, which has rocked the Miami Dolphins.

He found it hard to believe that a big lineman can be bullied. Read and watch his comments here.

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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss

Bitcoins and the Winklevoss twins

OK, disclosure. I just don't get bitcoins. It's a digital, virtual, futuristic, imaginary currency? "Does not compute … does not compute!"

But the Winklevosses (yes Tyler and Cameron—the duo made famous from the Facebook movie "The Social Network") are betting it will compute for a whole lot of people. And they came on with Andrew from the DealBook conference to try to explain it (I still don't think we get it) by comparing bitcons to gold!

Richard "Effing" Bernstein

He was born without a middle name. So Joe gave him "Effing." OK, that's pretty funny so I should just stop this post right here and let everybody just enjoy it.

But there are so many killjoys out there, and as a TV producer, I am also always trying to widen the tent to let everybody in.

So with that in mind—and just in case you are one of those killjoy, boring, econonerds who has no sense of humor and actually cares about where the market and economy are going—I'll post you the "effing" link just to cover my butt and keep you humorless drones quiet. (Wow, I really channeled my inner "Santelli" there!)

Don't chase fad stocks: Olstein

Robert Olstein of Olstein Funds explains why good companies looking at revenues, including Amazon, are "going to end badly."

Olstein on alert!

Way back in 1999, Bob Olstein of the Olstein Financial Alert Fund told Mark Haines right on the Squawk set to be wary of Lucent Technologies. (Bob, who loves to crunch the numbers on balance sheets, saw things in Lucent's accounts receivable column that just didn't make sense.) At the time, the company was the country's most widely held stock and Wall Street darling.

Six months later, CEO Richard McGinn announced that Lucent would have to take a huge accounting charge. That was the peak. The stock then started its fast and furious slide from $90 a share to almost zero, before the 2006 merger with Alcatel. To this day, it's one of the greatest warning flag calls in the history of "Squawk Box."

This week, Bob came back waving that red flag again. He doesn't like this social media boom but also warns about some established household names in tech. Check it out and take notes!

He's also focused on his latest acronym, "MINT," which stands for the economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey. On Squawk and in an op-ed, he said that they all have favorable demographics for at least the next 20 years and that their prospects are interesting.

Cramer clip

Upset with Cisco? If you want to see upset, check out Jim's rant on Squawk the morning after the company's conference call Wednesday evening. Classic Cramer!

The picture she posted is of the show's fifth anniversary mug (1999) with the longest anniversary celebration tagline in cable TV history. It almost didn't fit on the mug!

"From Wall Street to Main Street, Five years of turning Wall Street Inside Out!"

It's the "War and Peace" of show taglines. What idiot approved that? Oh, wait, maybe that was me.

Must follow them @

@BillRancic ... He visited Squawk on Monday to announce the four finalists of his Small Business Big Game competition. Go to smallbusinessbiggame.com to vote. The winner gets a 30-second commercial in the Super Bowl.

@JohnLeFante ... Yes, he's our amazing audio engineer on Squawk. Somehow we missed him last week when in celebration of the Twitter IPO we published every Twitter handle we could find that was even remotely associated with this program, except his.

Cedar Fair CEO: Longest inverted roller coaster coming

Cedar Fair reported record Q3 results, and raised its outlook for the full year. Its CEO Matt Ouimet discusses the longest inverted roller coaster "Banshee" set to open at Kings Island in 2014, and the behavior of consumers.

Anchor 2: "I have looked into this extensively. It's no problem up top. You have to suffer a little short-term pain for some long-term gain. But it does regrow hair."

Anchor 1: "I don't think you are worried about the same side effects I am."

Anchor 3: "Yuck!"

Word Jumble

Joe and Becky love to play the Word Jumble in the paper. Joe won three times this week. Beck won once. As always, let's give them a couple of bonus words. Joe's word is AENBCO. Becky's word is SHUATI. Find the answers at the end of the blog.